Unsolved Phenomena Writing Prompts

You don't know why but no matter how hard you masturbate, you can't bring yourself to orgasm. Coincidentally, your roommate is making weird noises from across the apartment.

Your son went missing when he was 5, and no one believes a strange portal took him. As the only suspect, you went to jail for 30 years. But as you are released in front of at least a hundred people, your son appears from a portal. He's still 5, but also looks like he lived a thousand years.

You and the boys break into your local high school to investigate a rumor. The rumor is, there's a secret swimming pool under the school that's been sealed off. You guys finally found it but, somethings seems way off about it.

L went to school and noticed my best friend Bethany was topless… I pointed it out and she seemed confused… she said that she was always topless. In fact, every girl was topless like it was nothing. And more things keep changing! Can I uncover this mystery before I begin to change too?

For ages, there has been a divide between the "evolved" species and the "designed" species. New evidence has been unearthed that humanity are an artificial race, designed for companionship. Yet no one in the galactic community have ever seen humanity's "creators", and of them there are no sign.

As the athlete on the podium accepted her Olympic gold medal, there was just one problem. No one had ever heard of her country before.

A blind old homeless person lives near your workplace. They seem to get a lot of visits from rich-looking people, who always ask them the same question: "Hey there old timer, anything I can do for you?"

A knock on your door reveals a person who you absolutely despise. They appear terrified of you, and ask you to sign a paper saying you have forgiven them.

The archaeologists stumble upon a strange room full with what appears to be fertility statues. Maybe it's a curse, maybe it's just that you haven't left camp in months, but some of your teammates are starting to look real good.

After decades of searching, humanity finally makes contact with an alien species. But instead of sending a message of peace or war, the aliens send a single question: ‘Why are you alone?’

You are a geologist on the first manned mission to Mars, and while taking a soil sample you discover something buried in the Martian dirt, a human skull.

Santa lives in the north pole with his elves. Krampus lives in the south pole with… well no one knows. You’ve set out to document exactly what goes on there

You live alone and off the land up in the snowy mountains. During a blizzard you hear a frenzied knocking at the door.

An unfamiliar man, mortally wounded in medieval armor stumbles up to you, grabbing you by the shirt collar, all but pleading "I *must* complete the circle, but it is up to you to break it!", handing you- strangely- a lottery ticket. Then dies. Tomorrow, you learn that ticket won $1.9 billion...

One day you found a sealed hatch to an old fashion fallout bunker. As a joke you tap on it a few times and shouts if anyone is inside. To your surprise, someone shouts back.

A goth cowgirl finds it more than a little suspicious how often her friends are mysteriously "out of milk"...

You are hours deep into exploring this abandoned bunker complex when you stumble upon an intact Stasis Chamber.

"They came from the Great Lake, as you did when you washed upon our shore," your adoptive mother spoke softly, her eyes never meeting yours, "They brought us salvation from who hunted us... And now so shall you."

There’s a monk in Tibet, famous for his unshakeable calm. Tourists pay for a 20-second challenge: get him to react in any way, and they win. No one has ever succeeded. Until one day, a small boy walks up, whispers something in the monk's ear... and the monk completely loses it.

As the odd little man leads you from room to room, giving you glimpses into the private lives of people you know, you begin to wonder what the numbers on the door could possibly be counting.

After downloading a shady piracy app, you settle in to binge-watch your favorite film or TV series. However, when you finish the final episode or movie, the app plays a new installment—one that doesn't officially exist.

Being given the key to the city is an honor few recieve. The real challenge, though, is finding the lock it opens.

You're not too sure, but you think the doctor who just preformed surgery on you isn't a real doctor.

You came back from holiday to your home, but, just as you opened the door to your home. Feeling something is off makes it's way into your mind. Everything inside looks normal and how you left it but, something has changed...

The mountains have loomed over your home since long before you were born. But you do not know a living soul who has been to them.

Every now and then, you dream of Ancient Egypt. The dreams are different, but they all have one thing in common: In every dream, there is always the Scarab.

You wake up one morning with no memory of the prior night with 3 naked superheroines sleeping beside you

When you were presumed dead from an assassination attempt your best friend assumed your identity to complete your life's work. Now that you're safe and ready to tell everyone you're still alive, the world has completely changed.

Usually, Analog Horror are supposed to replicate a general fear, so when you found a set of tapes numbered and all labeled with 18+, you were undoubtedly curious.

It was only once the ship waa far out to sea that the Captain discovered the rest of the crew were women dresses as men